Philadelphia Flyers vs Vancouver Canucks
Regular season · Saturday, January 2, 1988 · Pacific Coliseum
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Vancouver Canucks 4–1 on Saturday, January 2, 1988 at Pacific Coliseum. The Canucks outshot the Flyers 40–30.
Goals came from Murray Craven, Dave Poulin, Pelle Eklund, John Leblanc and Derrick Smith.
Ron Hextall made 39 saves on 40 shots for the win; Kirk McLean stopped 26 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Murray Craven (13)Kerry Huffman (12), Doug Crossman (16)1–001:51 PHI
2nd period
Dave Poulin (12)Rick Tocchet (15)2–003:19 PHI
Pelle Eklund (7)Unassisted3–003:30 PHI
John Leblanc (7)Jim Benning (8), Stan Smyl (20)3–113:44 VAN
3rd period
Derrick Smith (7)Kjell Samuelsson (13)4–105:50 PHI
Team stats
PHIVAN
3040
0%0%
0/20/5
3731
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:14 into the first period
Peter Zezel · high sticking2 min - 4:14 into the first periodPeter Zezel · fighting5 min
- 4:14 into the first period
Larry Melnyk · cross checking2 min - 4:14 into the first periodLarry Melnyk · fighting5 min
- 4:14 into the first periodTony Tanti · misconduct10 min
- 5:09 into the first periodBrad Marsh · holding2 min
- 6:24 into the first periodDoug Crossman · roughing2 min
- 6:24 into the first periodDoug Crossman · roughing2 min
- 6:24 into the first periodRon Hextall · misconduct10 min
- 6:24 into the first periodStan Smyl · roughing2 min
- 6:24 into the first periodStan Smyl · roughing2 min
- 19:03 into the first periodKjell Samuelsson · high sticking2 min
- 19:03 into the first periodKjell Samuelsson · roughing2 min
- 19:03 into the first periodRich Sutter · roughing2 min
- 19:03 into the first periodRich Sutter · slashing2 min
- 19:59 into the first periodMark Howe · hooking2 min
- 1:15 into the second periodScott Mellanby · high sticking2 min
- 1:15 into the second periodStan Smyl · high sticking2 min
- 7:26 into the second periodDave Richter · roughing2 min
- 11:41 into the second periodGreg Smyth · interference2 min
- 15:11 into the second periodDoug Lidster · tripping2 min
- 16:53 into the second periodScott Mellanby · holding2 min
- 15:02 into the third periodDave Brown · hooking2 min
Season series
Philadelphia Flyers
| 9Pelle EklundC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 20Dave PoulinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 22Rick TocchetR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 24Derrick SmithL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 32Murray CravenL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 3Doug CrossmanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Kerry HuffmanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 28Kjell SamuelssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 10Magnus RoupeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 14Ron SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 18Lindsay CarsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 19Scott MellanbyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 21Dave BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Ilkka SinisaloR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 25Peter ZezelC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 2Mark HoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 8Brad MarshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 40Greg SmythD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Ron HextallG | W | 40 | 1 | .975 |
| 33Mark LaforestG | 0 | 0 | – |
Vancouver Canucks
| 12Stan SmylR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 28John LeblancR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 4Jim BenningD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 7Barry PedersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 8Greg AdamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 9Tony TantiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 14Doug WickenheiserC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 15Rich SutterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Jim SandlakR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 21Craig CoxeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26Petri SkrikoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 33David SaundersL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 3Doug LidsterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 5Garth ButcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 6Dave RichterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Larry MelnykD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 27Randy BoydD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 29Daryl StanleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Kirk McLeanG | L | 30 | 4 | .867 |
| 30Frank CapriceG | 0 | 0 | – |